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 EXTRACTS 



From Communications made to the American Institute. 



The following is from a practical farmer in New Jersey in relation 

 to the treatment of salt, hay and sedge. 



He states : — That after tliree years experience he came to the con- 

 clusion that by mowing all his salt meadows lie improved them Tery 

 much. By placing a large portion of the grass in his barn yard, 

 where he kept some 40 head of cattle he could make more manure 

 than he could well use, make it cheaper, and thought it of better quali- 

 ty than any he could get. His plan was to haul it from his barn-yard 

 fall and spring, pile it in as large heaps as possible, and on every two or 

 three loads of his manure to strew two or three hundred pounds of 

 potash, and cover the whole with sods, and leave it so until it was re- 

 quired to spread it, 'and then just before spreading he would turn it 

 over. The cost of mowing, raking and carting the grass from the 

 meadow to the barn-yard was $1 .25 per acre, each acre yielding five 

 farmer's loads of grass. He made the comparison between the cost of 

 100 loads of manure prepared in this way, and delivered on the field, 

 and a like quanlity obtained from this city, as follows : 



$1 .25 per acre, for five loads, is for one hundred loads, $25 00 



Team and man at $2 per day, for 15 loads, is for 100 loads, 13 33 



do for hauling 30 loads per day, 6 67 



100 pounds potash sweepings at 3 J cents per pound, 3 50 



Labor in covering, 50 



$49 00 



